Oh, Freedom
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Oh, Freedom is a post Civil War African American freedom song, notably recorded by Odetta as part of the Spiritual Trilogy, on her "Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues" album from 1956.
The fourth verse contains the line "No more tommin," where the word tommin denotes to black men's extreme submissiveness towards a white person or white people. The word seems to have been derived from Harriet Beecher Stowe's fictitious character Uncle Tom in Uncle Tom's Cabin.
[edit] Lyrics
Oh, freedom, Oh, freedom,
Oh freedom over me.
And before I'd be a slave
I'd be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free.
No more moanin' etc.
No more weepin' etc.
No more shootin' etc.
There'll be singing etc.
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